Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVFor their first outings as television creators, Ethan Hawke and Little Marvin held nothing back.Hawke acquired the rights to James McBride’s novel “The Good Lord Bird” for the Showtime adaptation.
He also wrote scripts, executive produced and starred as abolitionist John Brown, approaching history with a witty bent. Meanwhile, Little Marvin blended classic horror genre elements with the all-too-real terror of otherness and racism when a Black family moves into a predominantly white neighborhood in “Them” for Amazon Prime VideoBoth men dabbled in the past for these limited series, with “The Good Lord Bird” set in the 1850s and “Them” set a century later, in the 1950s.
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